This time next week…

Happy Boxing Day! (And Happy Christmas to those of you in the Western hemisphere still stuck in the past ;-)) We had a very quiet Christmas, as is our wont. After a hectic few weeks of work (a couple of big last minute projects, plus trying to catch up on all the work I hadn’t…

When you look at it like that, it hardly seems any distance at all… 🙂

I went to Trattorie for lunch on Saturday, to drop off the books that freesia had left with me: Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse Plays Well With Others by Allan Gurganus Hooray for Hellywood by Esther Friesner Dreaming of a Stranger by Sheila O’Flanagan A Reader’s Digest Condensed Book What She Wants by Cathy Kelly…

One year ago today, the people of Christchurch thought we’d had a disaster, but we had no idea how much worse it was going to get as the year progressed. Unbelievable really that it’s been a year – it seems like it was only yesterday, yet in another way it also seems like we’ve been…

I really must get in the habit of writing my diary again. I seem to have got stuck in that rut of “nothing new has happened, so I’ve got nothing to say” again, when having nothing in particular to say has never stopped me in the past 😉 Hopefully I should have an incentive to…

I’ve finished the cross-stitch, and now there’s just the backstitch and a few french knots to go! (which is not as close to finished as it sounds, though, because the backstitch is horribly fiddly – lots of lines that start in the middle of stitches and funny angles – so it’ll take me ages)